Sentences with phrase «charges against a project»

More substantively, Bawumia has been the NPP campaign's leading voice on the economy, economic policy, and public finance and has also led the charge against the project - related corruption and cronyism in the Mahama administration.

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So protesters, whose rallying cry on Twitter was marked by the #NoDAPL hashtag, were joyous when the Army Corps of Engineers, which was in charge of permits for the project, appeared to move against it in December.

Rare earths company Arafura Resources says it will incur a $ 27.7 million non-cash impairment charge against its Nolans project in the Northern Territory.

The charges against Duhaime are not related to bribery overseas (they concern a project in Montreal), but it is worth noting that SNC - Lavalin first caught the attention of the RCMP just over a year ago due to an investigation into — guess what?

O'Keefe claimed Project Veritas» work was in the tradition of the undercover journalism of Upton Sinclair and Jack London, and defended his videos — which have been slammed by critics for selective editing — against the charge that they seemed «unbelievable.»

Cuomo has been talking about reforming economic development contract awards in his administration, following federal criminal charges against nine people — one a former top aide — on bribery and bid - rigging charges in connection with the Buffalo Billion and other projects.

Governor Andrew Cuomo visited Buffalo on Friday, one day after U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced corruption charges against nine men, including two of his confidants, in relation to projects including the Buffalo Billion.

Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend site in South Buffalo.

After the money flowed to Vance, the Democratic DA overruled his prosecutors and declined to file charges against Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and others involved in the controversial Trump SoHo project.

Pledge 2 Protect, the coalition of anti-MTS groups leading the charge against the much - maligned sanitation project, is specifically targeting mayoral hopefuls Bill de Blasio and Christine Quinn, who have expressed support for the station.

It's been a week since a federal corruption investigation exploded in New York state, bringing fraud and bribery and charges against developers and state officials for allegedly running a pay - to - play scheme involving upstate economic development projects.

He announced a day after the criminal charges were filed against his associates that he's yanking all contract authority for economic development projects from SUNY Poly and giving it to his own economic development agency.

When charges were brought against Kaloyeros and others last fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed Empire State Development, the state's chief economic development agency, to assume responsibility for the projects of FRMC and another nonprofit affiliate that figures in the federal complaint.

INWOOD — A City Council committee in charge of rezoning unanimously voted against the Sherman Plaza project Tuesday morning, a day after Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez announced he could not support the project due to community opposition.

After the criminal charges against Kaloyeros were announced, Cuomo transferred responsibility for SUNY Poly's projects to Empire State Development, with the promise of changes to the way these kinds of deals are done.

Some projects have led to federal corruption charges against associates of Cuomo.

Felony bid - rigging charges filed Sept. 22 against SUNY Poly President Alain Kaloyeros, lobbyist Todd Howe and developers in other upstate cities have brought a new round of scrutiny to the college's shadowy contracting practices as Cuomo's administration scrambles to reconfigure who oversees the state's major economic development projects.

His decision to empower former SUNY Polytechnic president Alain Kaloyeros to manage big - ticket projects built at taxpayer expense upstate has mired his administration in scandal, culminating in criminal charges against state officials and developers, and leaving many planned developments in limbo.

Governor Cuomo has been talking about reforming economic development contract awards in his administration, following federal criminal charges against nine people, one a former top aide, on bribery and bid rigging charges in connection with the Buffalo Billion and other projects.

Federal prosecutors last year brought a wide - ranging case against Percoco, Ciminelli and others over alleged bid - rigging and bribery charges connected to economic development projects from Buffalo to Orange County.

After criminal charges against Kaloyeros and Percoco were unsealed in September, Cuomo declared the Utica fab — and SUNY Poly's other upstate projects — would be transferred to the Empire State Development corporation.

Supporters, including Syracuse Republican Sen. John DeFrancisco, said the oversight is needed, especially in the wake of recent corruption and bribery charges filed against multiple business leaders, SUNY officials and former aides and associates of the governor in connection with SUNY projects.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Mayor Stephanie Miner today said criminal bribery charges against COR Development Co. raise concerns about the future of the company's project at the Inner Harbor.

The charges came the same day Bharara announced unrelated charges against Kaloyeros — one of the state's highest paid employees — and eight others as part of a probe into Cuomo's signature upstate «Buffalo Billion» economic development project.

Still, the charges against COR raised concern over the company's dealings with government projects.

Federal prosecutors have also brought corruption charges against two former administration aides, a lobbyist and Syracuse and Buffalo business executives involved in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development projects.

Among the upstate projects is the «Buffalo Billion» plan, which has spawned federal bribery and bid - rigging charges against two former Cuomo aides.

Corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office last week against two former top aides to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and others involve a power plant project in the Hudson Valley.

She also averred that the defendant's confessional statement that he had diverted part of the One Billion Naira (N1, 000 000,000) UBA loan to other projects and services corroborated the charges preferred against him.

Like the SolarCity project, the Syracuse plant was ensnared by bidding irregularities that resulted in federal corruption charges against development officials.

«I want you to know, personally, that these charges against these nine individuals will have absolutely nothing to do with the energy, and the progress, and the momentum of Western New York's revitalization under the Buffalo Billion project,» he said.

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If «Bennet Miller's Passion Project» weren't enought o pique your interest, the film stars Channing Tatum as a young wrestler, and Mark Ruffalo as his doomed brother, with, in a potentially brilliantly disconcerting piece of against - type casting, Steve Carell as the wealthiest American ever to be charged with and convicted of murder.

PROJECTED CLOSE AGAINST A WALL in a large, dark gallery, the saturated red of Steve McQueen's 16 - mm film Charlotte, 2004, produced an intimacy with the viewer every bit as charged as the contact that occurs between the artist's finger and Charlotte Rampling's eyeball.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Public Service Company of Oklahoma filed a 23 - page exceptions report Feb. 23 in response to an Oklahoma Corporation Commission administrative law judge's recommendation earlier this month against pre-approval of PSO's request to allow the company to charge ratepayers to help fund the project.

International NGOs are denouncing the charges brought against Nasako Besingi, a leader in the fight against a project by U.S. agribusiness giant Herakles Farms to develop oil palm plantations in Cameroon.

Additionally, recognizing that we are being charged with illegal activities for simply protecting the water, we are taking back our power and charging the pipeline companies, banks and individuals behind this project with crimes against Humanity and crimes against Mother Earth.

Born in 1941, he became a climatologist at the University of Iowa, developed the groundbreaking «Zero Model» for projecting climate change, and later became the head of climate research at NASA, only to leave under pressure when, while still a federal employee, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government charging inaction on warming (along the way he got arrested a few times for protesting, too).

The building's owner, Station Lands, and the general contractor in charge of the construction project, Ledcor Construction, claimed the cost of replacing the windows against a builders» risk insurance policy.